International Bestselling Author of Blood, Ink & Fire and the upcoming domestic suspense Dark Ugly Places

Stories that explore the dark side of love, ambition, and the secrets we keep.

Get an exclusive sneak peek of Ashley’s new release and be the first to know when new books drop.

International Bestselling Author of Blood, Ink & Fire and the upcoming domestic suspense Dark Ugly Places

Stories that explore the dark side of love, ambition, and the secrets we keep.

Get an exclusive sneak peak of Ashley's new release and be the first to know when new books drop.

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We all have a dark place.

The question is—what happens

when it finally opens?

Ashley Mansour

is a bestselling author, award-winning film producer, and storyteller whose fiction peels back the layers of ordinary lives to reveal what lurks beneath.

Her breakout novel Blood, Ink & Fire — an international bestseller — imagined a world where books were forbidden and reading was treason. Her upcoming thrillers Dark Ugly Places (Spring 2026) and The Girl That Jack Killed (Fall 2026) mark her return to fiction with haunting, emotionally charged stories of women confronting the past, surviving the impossible, and uncovering dangerous truths.

Drawing on a decade in publishing and Hollywood, Ashley writes with a cinematic eye and a deep understanding of human psychology — creating intimate, tense, and unputdownable domestic suspense.

She lives in Irvine, California, with her husband and their 65-pound Bernedoodle, Bernie, who thinks he’s the main character.

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Featured Book

Coming Spring 2026

Dark Ugly Places

A haunting domestic thriller about trauma, obsession, and the dangerous places the mind will go to make sense of pain.

Some wounds don’t heal. They fester. They whisper. They take over.

After a hit-and-run shatters her perfect Los Angeles life, Nicola Holiday is left grieving her husband, protecting her teenage daughter, and fighting a darkness she’s spent years trying to outrun. When that darkness takes on a voice of its own — Martha — Nicola’s search for justice turns dangerous.

Dark Ugly Places is a haunting domestic suspense novel about female rage, fractured identity, and the terrifying lengths the mind will go to survive unbearable pain.

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COMING FALL 2026

The Girl That Jack Killed

A chilling psychological suspense about desire, deception, and the thin line between love and danger.

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